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Smoky Quartz & Spessartine

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FRN128088

Smoky Quartz & Spessartine

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Description
Locality: 
Wulian County, Rizhao, Shandong Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.8 × 8.1 × 6.9 cm
Largest Crystal: 
5.30cm
Description

Cluster of sharp, transparent to translucent, highly lustrous, prismatic smoky quartz crystals set on the matrix with sparkling and deep red spessartine dot on it. Many of the spessartine crystal were inside smoky quartz as inclusion.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0

Spessartine

Formula: 
Mn2+3Al2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Sommer quarry, Wendelberg, Haibach, Aschaffenburg, Spessart, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
Oriental Minerals